Join Canadian Geographic for a fascinating talk by author Kenn Harper on Knud Rasmussen and the Fifth Thule Expedition. 

Greenlanders have always been interested in the Akilinermiut — “the people on the other side of the water” — and Knud Rasmussen was no exception. Throughout the early 1900s, he held fast to a dream: to visit the most isolated Inuit in North America and document their beliefs and experiences before their lives were irrevocably changed by an influx of missionaries, traders and adventurers. In 1921, accompanied by four Danes, one Kalaaleq (West Greenlander) and six Inughuit, he embarked on the Fifth Thule Expedition, a three-year ethnographic expedition that culminated in an epic journey by dogsled across the top of North America, from Danish Island, Nunavut to East Cape, Siberia. In this fascinating talk celebrating the centennial of the expedition, author Kenn Harper explores Rasmussen’s remarkable achievement and its enduring legacy.  

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